1 shot, another stabbed in year's first homicides

4:02 PM,
Jan. 2, 2014

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A teenager was shot and killed on the Eastside and another man fatally stabbed in the neck at an airport hotel overnight, the first violent deaths recorded in the city this year.

The first death happened at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday when Indianapolis Metropolitan Police went to South Temple Avenue and Graydon Street on the city's Eastside on reports that a person had been shot, according to an IMPD report.

When police arrived they found a 16-year-old boy in the street with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency medical crews, the report says. ...